The city’s Department of Correction may soon begin to implement parts of a local law banning solitary confinement in the city’s jails, nearly two and a half years after the bill was first passed.
Read MoreCity Hall last week unveiled a plan it says will finally bring the city into compliance with long-suspended jail oversight rules and a local law banning solitary confinement on Rikers Island.
Read MoreNew York teens held inside the state’s adolescent detention centers are routinely kept locked in cramped quarters without reliable access to water or bathroom facilities, a new class action lawsuit claims.
Read MoreMayor Eric Adams illegally declared a state of emergency in the city’s jails in an effort to skirt around implementing a law banning solitary confinement in New York City, a judge ruled on Monday.
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